1 Maccabees 6:34
Good News Translation
They got the elephants ready for battle by showing them grape juice and mulberry juice.

New Revised Standard Version
They offered the elephants the juice of grapes and mulberries, to arouse them for battle.

Contemporary English Version
Some of the soldiers gave the elephants grape juice and mulberry juice to make them eager to fight.

New American Bible
They made the elephants drunk on the juice of grapes and mulberries to get them ready to fight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight.

1 Maccabees 6:32
And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp.

1 Maccabees 6:33
And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets:

1 Maccabees 6:35
And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast.

1 Maccabees 6:36
These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there: and whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.

Context
1 Maccabees 6
33And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets: 34And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight. 35And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 6:32
And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp.

1 Maccabees 6:33
And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets:

1 Maccabees 6:35
And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast.

1 Maccabees 6:36
These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there: and whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.



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1 Maccabees 6:33
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